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You’ve heard it many times before. Spend more of your board meeting time on strategy. The purpose of your board, after all, is to address tough questions and help navigate direction for your organization. But when each meeting rolls around, you seem to have a lot of items on the agenda. How can you focus on what matters most? Here are 10 things you can stop and start doing to help. Things

In only the past few years, cybercrime seems to have become mainstream, with malware and ransomware attacks disabling government organizations and financial institutions the world over. However, while the headline-grabbing attacks may be targeted at some of the world’s largest organizations, everyday cybercrime regularly targets smaller institutions especially in finance, government, and those that are public. Small and medium-sized organizations become easy targets for cybercriminals for several reasons: Their IT departments typically

With our thanks, we share this rebroadcast of an earlier article by respected corporate governance advisor Fay Booker. The board is the leader of the organization’s ethics Ethics is part of the brand of your organization. Your company’s ethics create the culture of the organization. Every few months there is a high profile issue with respect to ethics – the GM ignition switch scandal, the questionable spending of tax dollars by senators,

There comes a time when you must make room for the next generation of members on your board. This need will become even more evident as the scores of baby boomers who sit on boards begin to retire over the next decade. Focusing on recruiting the next generation of board members is an investment in the future success of the organization. The board’s goal should be two-fold: to attract a diverse crop

The structure of a crown corporation board, and how its members manage and conduct themselves, are key to its success. A Canadian crown corporation — sometimes called a crown agency — is a corporation owned by either the federal or provincial government. Because crown agencies generally use public funds to operate, they’re under intense scrutiny from taxpayers. They have the unique challenge of balancing the needs of public policy and commercial objectives.